Third Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge
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The Baishazhou Yangtze River Bridge (), sometimes referred as the Third Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge for being the third Yangtze river bridge in
Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city an ...
, is a highway bridge over the
Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest list of rivers of Asia, river in Asia, the list of rivers by length, third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in th ...
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Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city an ...
,
Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The ...
Province, China. It is located southwest (upstream) of the First Bridge (which connects central
Wuchang Wuchang forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the ri ...
with central
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). The two bridge names come from the order of construction (it was built after the First and Second Bridges), and from the name of the small island (Baisha Zhou (), i.e. "White Sand Island") located under the bridge. left, 250px, Wuhan's third Yangtze river Bridge at Baishazhou. The bridge construction started in 1997 and was completed in September 2000. The final construction cost of the bridge was $380 million. It is long and wide, has six lanes and a capacity of 50,000 vehicles a day. The bridge serves as a major passage for the Third Ring Road enormously easing the city's traffic and aiding local
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See also

* Yangtze River bridges and tunnels *
List of largest cable-stayed bridges This list ranks the world's cable-stayed bridges by the length of main span, i.e. the distance between the suspension towers. The length of the main span is the most common way to rank cable-stayed bridges. If one bridge has a longer span than ano ...


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Bridges in Wuhan Bridges over the Yangtze River Bridges completed in 2000 Cable-stayed bridges in China 2000 establishments in China {{PRChina-bridge-struct-stub